The United States set a new record for daily deaths from coronavirus on Tuesday, touching 4,000 deaths in 24 hours.
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Johns Hopkins University indicated that 3,930 deaths and 250,173 new coronavirus infections were reported in the last day.
The US health authorities indicated that it is not yet clear that all of them have occurred in the last 24 hours.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.6M tests, 214k cases, a record 131,195 COVID-19 patients, and 3,478 deaths. pic.twitter.com/wMexUooSar
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking)
January 6, 2021
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It is possible that some of them were recorded during the past weekend and the New Year holiday and that they have been slow to be reflected in the official statistics due to the holidays.
We are almost at our 7-day average peaks for cases and deaths. The next few days are likely to be worse, as the pandemic continues to rage across most of the country and states catch up on posting holiday-delayed data.
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking)
January 6, 2021
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the United States has recorded 21,578,606 infections and 365,620 deaths from coronavirus according to the Worldmeters site, which keeps a real-time record of the virus.
The number of people hospitalized has also reached an unprecedented level since the start of the pandemic, with more than 131,000 patients occupying beds due to Covid-19, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.
The United States has faced a spectacular rebound in the epidemic since the autumn, showing that the country is going through a second wave of the pandemic.
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